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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jayne E. Triber. A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1998. Pp. x, 314. $29.95.

With republicanism becoming a more protean concept with each passing year, Jayne E. Triber boldly proclaims Paul Revere to be a "true republican." Very much aware of the "slippery" and "contested" nature of republicanism today, she believes scholars must investigate even more closely the principles espoused by individual republicans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in order to reach a better understanding of republicanism itself. With this in mind, she searches for the sources of Revere's republican vision: "a society based on social order and harmony, virtue and benevolence, and the opportunity for advancement based on achievement"(p. 3). 1

This search begins in Boston's North End, where the North Writing School, the New Brick Church, and an apprenticeship with his father—a master goldsmith—shaped Revere's boyhood. On his father's death in 1752, Revere inherited a fully stocked goldsmith's shop and over the years became a master at his trade. He also became a member of the artisan-dominated St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, which expanded his cultural and intellectual horizons immensely. Young Revere's political awakening came in 1765 with the Stamp Act crisis. Employing his skills as an engraver, he began to create masterful political cartoons supporting the American cause. Soon Revere joined the North End Caucus and became an active member of the Sons of Liberty. By the time of his famous midnight ride of April 19, 1775, he had already become the most trusted courier of the Boston Committee of Correspondence. . . .

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